It seems like thunderbird has some difficulty with maildir:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Pluggable_Mail_Stores

so I'm still using mbox. Are the below errors simply because I wasn't running rmlist as sudo? It should be run as sudo?


thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ rmlist alpha
Not removing archives.  Reinvoke with -a to remove them.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/rmlist", line 161, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/rmlist", line 116, in main
    mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0)
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __init__
    self.Load()
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 650, in Load
    dict, e = self.__load(file)
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 615, in __load
    fp = open(dbfile)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/alpha/config.pck'
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ sudo rmlist -a alpha
[sudo] password for thufir:
Removing list info
Removing private archives
Removing private archives
Removing public archives
alpha public archives not found as /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/alpha.mbox
thufir@dur:~$


thanks,

Thufir
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